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How We Missed the Story
Roy Gutman
Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban and the Hijacking of Afghanistan
United States Institute of Peace Press
January 2008
On Sale: January 15, 2008
304 pages ISBN: 1601270240 EAN: 9781601270245 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
Focusing principally on events and policy missteps in
Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s, award-winning journalist
Roy Gutman weaves a narrative that exposes how and why the
U.S. government, the United Nations, and the Western media
"missed the story" in the leadup to 9/11. He advances this
narrative carefully and persuasively and approaches his
subject with an objective, journalistic eye, drawing heavily
on his own original research and extensive interviews with
key players both in the United States and abroad. Arguing
that the U.S. government made a strategic mistake by
categorizing bin Laden's murderous assaults prior to 9/11 as
terrorism, he ultimately concludes that the core failure was
in the field of U.S. foreign policy. Sure to attract a wide
audience, this first-rate, deeply engaging volume makes a
highly original contribution to our understanding of the
events and mistakes that ultimately led to 9/11 and offers
much-needed insight so that such a story is not missed again.
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